City Edges

Four competitions sharing sites along urban boundaries.

City Edges is a series of projects done with Professor Regin Schwaen as Sky Mountain architects. Conducting our design research through architectural competitions has been a way to place the work in a realm that meets the world.

What connects these projects is similarity of site (generic urban spaces, often found on the edges of a city) and our intent to add punctuation by bringing in or emphasizing tactile spatial qualities.

pocket space

Brooklyn: Small parks connected along the East River to make a chain of pockets into the city.

pasted space

Chicago: Two huge islands placed in Lake Michigan.

surface space

Oslo: Two surfaces that meet at the harbor fort to make a place to land.

folded space

Montréal: Spaces pulled between the ground and the sky to hold an urban room.